We wrapped up the Flash Memory Summit today with another round of briefings and we participated in a panel studying the state of the SSD market. Today was a little different than other days as we went down to the…
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Demo Day At The Flash Memory Summit
Tagged with: Flash memory, IOPS, Marvell, Multi-level cell, OCZ, Solid-state drive, SQL, SSD, VMware, WhipTail
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Posted in Briefing Note
IBM Solidifies SSD Strategy With Texas Memory Acquisition
In what could be one of the most important acquisitions of the year, IBM today announced plans to acquire Texas Memory Systems. While the details will be presented later on today, we think this is an excellent move on the…
Increasing VM Density With Server Side Caching
Increasing the number of virtual machines (VMs) per host is a critical next step in the design of virtualized server infrastructures so that the growth of virtual hosts does not begin to eat at the original ROI of the virtualization…
Tagged with: AutoCache, Cache, PCI Express, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Why is Nimble Storage Growing?
Out first meeting of the 2012 ExecEvent in San Jose, California this week was with Nimble Storage who gave us an update on their progress as well as a roadmap of where their product is going. The company is currently…
SSD’s Role In The Storage Ecosystem
In a few weeks I will be hosting a panel discussion at the ExecEvent in Palo Alto, CA on SSD’s Role in the storage ecosystem. The role of SSD depends on the use case. In performance demanding environments and large…
IBM Storage Makes Its SSD Case
At IBM Edge 2012 IBM made its case for having a better end-to-end solid state disk (SSD) strategy over its competitors. For the major suppliers (IBM, EMC, HP, Dell) there are several key locations where they need to be executing…
Rack Density – The Key to Maximum Virtualization ROI
Data center floor space is an increasing concern for IT managers. Once the walls of the data center have been reached, the only options are to either decrease the amount of devices in the current data center or to build…
Tagged with: Density, Nutanix, PCIe, RAM, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Tuning the Cloud for Primary Storage
TwinStrata Test Drive Part 2 – Cache Intelligence One of the biggest concerns for IT managers considering cloud storage for primary data is how to make sure that the inherent latency of an internet connection does not impact the required…
Faster VMAX and Isilon Performance
Another key theme coming out of EMC World Day 1 was a focus on providing a performance boost to EMC’s core storage platforms, beyond just adding solid state disk. The EMC Symmetrix family, the EMC VMAX, and their scale out NAS offering,…
What is a Flash OS?
Flash-based Solid State Devices (SSD) are more than just a collection of memory cards. They’re also not created equally. Components like the controller, backplane, and internal interconnect all are important differentiators when accessing Flash-based storage solutions. As these products have…
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